Democratic Candidates Are Running a Race of Inauthenticity
Victor Davis Hanson
Posted: Jul 11, 2019 12:00 AM
An epidemic of false identities, massaged resumes, and warped ancestries has broken out among the current Democratic presidential primary candidates.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for years claimed Native American ancestry. An embattled Warren ironically took a DNA test that only proved her critics' contention that she was no more of Native American heritage than the vast majority of Americans.
Another Democratic candidate, Robert Francis O'Rourke, is a rich white male who grew up in affluence. O'Rourke some time ago adopted the name "Beto," an abbreviation for the Spanish "Roberto." The Spanish-speaking, Irish-American O'Rourke, with a wink and nod, has assumed a useful near-Latino identity.
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